National Health Workforce Planning Tool

The Health Workforce Planning Tool is Australia’s first agreed and official national tool to project the health workforce required to ensure that supply is sufficient to meet demand at both the macro and individual profession levels.

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Research, Planning and Data

The research, planning and data program links into Principle 6 of the National Health Workforce Strategic Framework in which

"Health workforce policy and planning should be population and consumer focused, linked to broader health care and health systems planning and informed by the best available evidence"

Key objectives

The key objectives of the research, planning and data portfolio are to:

Lead, encourage and support a health workforce research, planning and policy development agenda to provide a sound evidence bases upon which to inform policy decisions on workforce supply and demand, distribution, utilisation and design in order to meet the projected population and consumer health care needs, and
Continually improve national health workforce information through data collections, establishing common language, minimum data sets, and consistent collection and processing arrangements across jurisdictions.

Process diagram

Research, Planning and Data process diagram (pdf, 33k)

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